Dr Dennis Schmidt

Biography	Dennis R. Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in International Relations and Joachim Herz Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to joining Durham, he was a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University. He has held fellowships and visiting posts at George Washington University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Tübingen. Interested in the relationship between ethics, politics, and law at the global level, Dennis' work explores international order and global governance in theory and practice. He is interested in how international norms and institutions shape, and are shaped by, changing ideas and patterns of global order, and how these changes affect the constitution and morality of global governance. He is currently working on a book-length study on international criminal justice and the making of world order, with a specific focus on decoloniality, cultural diversity, and practices of inclusion and exclusion. Dennis has published on international norms and institutions, pluralism and global order, and the normative foundations of international law in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Review of International Studies. He currently serves as the program chair for the ISA English School section. Beyond academia, he has been a regular contributor to various blogs and media outlets, including The Conversation, Just Security, Zeit Online, and The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog).
Research Interests	Politics and ethics of international law Global order International norms and institutions International Relations theory International criminal justice

Biography

Dennis R. Schmidt is an Assistant Professor in International Relations and Joachim Herz Fellow at the Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study. Prior to joining Durham, he was a Senior Lecturer at Swansea University. He has held fellowships and visiting posts at George Washington University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the University of Tübingen.

Interested in the relationship between ethics, politics, and law at the global level, Dennis' work explores international order and global governance in theory and practice. He is interested in how international norms and institutions shape, and are shaped by, changing ideas and patterns of global order, and how these changes affect the constitution and morality of global governance. He is currently working on a book-length study on international criminal justice and the making of world order, with a specific focus on decoloniality, cultural diversity, and practices of inclusion and exclusion.

Dennis has published on international norms and institutions, pluralism and global order, and the normative foundations of international law in journals such as International Studies Quarterly, International Theory, and Review of International Studies. He currently serves as the program chair for the ISA English School section.

Beyond academia, he has been a regular contributor to various blogs and media outlets, including The Conversation, Just Security, Zeit Online, and The Washington Post (The Monkey Cage blog).

Research Interests

Politics and ethics of international law
Global order
International norms and institutions
International Relations theory
International criminal justice